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Laurentide SynthWorks Closing Up Shop

This is unfortunate news. It appears Laurentide SynthWorks is closing shop. They provided a number of DIY services and finished products for those that might not have the time or skills to DIY themselves. Their most recent product list included eurorack DIY, the Mutable Instruments Shruthi and Ambika, and a highly modified Moog Werkstatt.

via Laurentide SynthWorks:

"Hi all,

I have been thinking on this for quite some time and have finally come to the decision to hang up Laurentide SynthWorks.

The batch of Shruthi/Ambika that was just shipped to Modular Addict is the last batch that I will be doing. I will be putting together one more run of VG2 kits together that will also be available at Modular Addict, after that I will be discontinuing it as well as the PRM2.

I also have an unreleased module with full kits already assembled. Those will be for sale at Knobcon in September.

I did not come to decision easily and it took me about 6 months to finally say I'm done. It wasn't easy to come to terms with, but the reality of it is that it was getting way to difficult juggling family and a demanding day job. Plus, the passion was fading and it was feeling more like a regular job, which is not at all why I started it in the 1st place.

I want to thank everyone for being supportive and totally awesome. I have met a lot of great people over the years and made a ton of new friends. I'll still remain active in the scene, just no longer as a manufacturer.

Thanks again and I hope to see you at Knobcon one last time.

Adam Armstrong
Laurentide Syntworks
2013-2016"

Space Bumps Online 3D Synth App

via DreamPipe

"Space Bumps is an audio visual app for generating experimental arpeggios and ambient landscapes. The synth engine is (very) loosely based on the famous sounds of the Yamaha’s DX7. The sounds produced are then analysed and turned into 3d landscapes.

Features:
Change arp transpose using asdf..etc keys
Lo fi FM synthesis and echo, reverb and chorus effects
Record and export audio output to wav
Save patterns / patches
Share saved patterns to twitter / fb

Tips:
Turn attack to zero, tempo to 200+ and reverb to 100 to get ambient/spacey pads
Disable visualisation to improve performance

Have fun!" https://www.chromeexperiments.com/experiment/space-bumps

Sonic LAB: MakeNoise 0-Coast Review

Published on Jul 12, 2016 sonicstate

"The desktop mono, modular synthesizer from Maknoise fits in between East and West Coast synthesis methods - we take a look."

"Prophecy Theme" - Brian Eno - Dune Soundtrack

Published on Jul 12, 2016 Anthony Distefano

"My NI Absynth version of the Prophecy Theme from the film Dune.This was all done using Absynth's envelopes."

ctrl Editors for Windows & Mac

Update2: You can now find them here: http://ctrlr.org/panels/. Thanks goes to the Synthesizer Sympathizer for the link!

Note the Cheetah MS6 editor is listed but the download link is not available. If anyone has it or knows where to find it, please let us know.

Original post:

Anyone know where to find ctrl editors for Windows & Mac? See this post for reference. They used to be hosted on http://code.google.com, but Google shut the service down. I checked the archives linked there but couldn't find them. If you know where they are hosted or the developer please let us know.

Update: I should have mentioned what inspired this post. Someone was looking for the Cheetah MS6 ctrl editor. If anyone has it and/or knows where to find it, please let us know.

Also someone suggested checking the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. You can see what the list looked like here. Unfortunately the download links do not work from the few I tried. I'm guessing the archives only save html and images.

Waldorf Miniworks 4-pole Analog Filter w/ MIDI Control

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via this auction

"Rare analog filter unit. Full MIDI control and program memory.
All metal construction and excellent condition.

Original manual + power supply included"

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